This is interesting. I had heard of this theory previously (Smolin), but didn't appreciate the Darwinian nature of it. You still get multiverses that each adopt

This is interesting. I had heard of this theory previously (Smolin), but didn't appreciate the Darwinian nature of it. You still get multiverses that each adopt their own distinct rules of physics, but natural selection plays in to how the universes are created. Some amount of information is transferred from the source universe to the one newly created, but the information is not lost -- something Susskin put forth some years ago by comparing the event horizon of a black hole to a hologram.